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...couples can still get married. Every building, from old post offices to police posts, butcher shops to banks, is fronted with an English-language plaque explaining its history. Within, dioramas depict life in the Meiji era (1867-1912). Many displays are interactive: a Kabuki troupe performs in the Kureha-za Theater, while an antique Kyoto streetcar runs to sake tastings at the city's former Nakai Brewery...
...most serious divisions within French society spring not from head scarves but from economic and social inequality. "There isn't a single Muslim in Parliament to vote on this law and not a single Arab among all the country's mayors," laments conservative politician and civil rights activist Zaïr Kedadouche. "France is broken." Consider these signs of fracture: unemployment in the banlieue often runs at more than double the national level of 9.7%, and the jobless rate among banlieue youths with a college or vocational diploma is four times higher than it is among those from more affluent...
...dogged and earnest as she is when she is campaigning for Kerry on her own, Teresa (pronounced Tuh-ray-za), 65, does not function nearly so well as a prop. Onstage beside her husband during yet another recitation of his stump speech, she stands with her wavy hair falling over her eyes, looking preoccupied or, worse, bored. Only recently did she begin using Kerry's last name, switch her party registration from Republican and quit referring to the late Senator Heinz in the present tense as "my husband." She still has a tendency to volunteer what another political spouse might...
...Located in Tokyo's semiseedy entertainment district of Asakusa, the same streets that birthed Kitano's career, the Rokku-za strip theater has been XXX-rated since 1945, when its owners discovered what cable TV has since learned: even the dullest entertainment can be made palatable with toplessness. In the postwar years, the Rokku-za was a popular hangout for rebel intellectuals; now the club entertains sottish salarymen with nice Japanese girls and sultry Russians gyrating to pop ballads. This is, literally, Mama's house...
...Tsunehisa, she first lent the actor money in the 1970s to save his debt-plagued film company, Katsu Productions. Despite her help, it eventually went broke, but Saito and Katsu remained close, even after his 1990 arrest in Hawaii for drug smuggling. At her office next to the Rokku-za, Saito shows photographs taken of her and Katsu together just days before he died of throat cancer in 1997. More than 10,000 people came to his funeral in Tokyo...